Entry 51:
"But there was Hester, clad in her gray robe, still standing beside the tree-trunk, which some blast had overthrown a long antiquity ago, and which time had ever since been covering with moss, so that these two fated ones, with earth’s heaviest burden on them, might there sit down together, and find a single hour’s rest and solace."
Hester, still in her 'gray' robe, is still hiding the secret of Dimmesdale. A blast or a storm had brought the trunk down long before, like their sin had divided them. The tree trunk covered in moss, covers the tree like Hester and Dimmesdale are hiding their secret in town. They sit on the tree trunk as if they are putting of having to tell the truth. They're not going to have true solace until they're honest.
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